Senior Landscape Architect

Toole Design Group in Raleigh, NC is looking to hire an experienced and talented full-time Senior Landscape Architect. This is an opportunity to be part of a talented group of designers as we continue to build our team in Raleigh. Do you have 10+ years of progressive experience in landscape architecture and sound capabilities in business development and project management? Are you passionate about re-imagining public spaces that promote livable and equitable communities with mobility choices for all? Would you enjoy working on a variety of streetscape, trails, and active transportation projects with unique challenges that encourage creative and critical thinking? Would you like to work for a firm that is committed to the well-being of its employees? If so, please consider joining our Raleigh team.

This Senior Landscape Architect position will lead projects with a focus on the public realm and active transportation, and earns a competitive salary and great benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, retirement, a health savings account (HSA), and a flexible spending account (FSA). We practice what we preach and ensure that our employees also have access to transportation by providing them with financial incentives to bike, walk, or use transit for a better quality of life.

About Toole Design

Toole Design is the leading planning, landscape architecture, and engineering firm specializing in multimodal transportation. Since our start in 2003 as a single office in Maryland, we have expanded throughout the United States. Our talented team of planners, landscape architects, and engineers are committed to delivering quality work that meets the needs of all people, regardless of age, ability, race or gender. We have been named a "best firm to work for" and have one of the lowest staff turnover rates in the industry.

Every project our employees deliver directly and positively affects our communities. We are industry-leading experts, and we work hard to encourage a collaborative and team-oriented environment.

A Day in the Life of a Senior Landscape Architect 

As a Senior Landscape Architect, you’ll be working directly with the Raleigh Leadership Team, including the Office Director and Engineering Group Manager. The expectation is for the Senior Landscape Architect to hit the ground running, working with existing clients and project teams, and elevate design capabilities in our North Carolina market along with the larger Southern Region. Additionally, in collaboration with the other design professionals in the firm, you will help to grow our landscape architecture practice and build our portfolio of projects ranging from concept design to construction documents. In projects, you will often serve as Project Manager or Design Task Lead, establishing the project focus and design direction, leading a team of designers, planners, engineers, and environmental graphic designers to develop successful project solutions.

You will apply your broad knowledge of technical criteria and methods, design documentation, and hands-on management experience to a variety landscape architecture and urban design projects. You will share a commitment to design excellent, and work with a collaborative team. As a part of our landscape architecture practice, you will be at the table with our clients, community members, working collaboratively on projects from start to finish, from stakeholder outreach and design workshops to construction documents and observation. 

Your job can sometimes be challenging, but you get to work with a close-knit team that is passionate about the work and the communities that you serve. 

We are targeting a salary range of $85,000 to $100,000 for this position.

Work Schedule for a Senior Landscape Architect 

This full-time position typically works a flexible schedule of 40 hours a week. We also provide employees with the flexibility and necessary equipment to work from home 2-3 days per week. The Raleigh office of Toole Design is conveniently located in downtown Raleigh, just a few blocks from Moore Square and GoRaleigh Station. The office is easily accessed on foot, by bicycle, and via transit.

Qualifications of a Senior Landscape Architect:

• A bachelor’s and/or master’s degree in Landscape Architecture
• 10+ years of progressive landscape architecture experience
• Licensure or ability to complete licensure within one year of employment
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience in all phases of design for streetscapes, plazas and parks, master plans, planting plans, and site programming
• Strong proficiency with hand and digital graphic techniques to communicate design ideas and produce illustrative graphics
• Proficiency in AutoCAD, Bluebeam, and Microsoft Office Suite
• A client-service attitude and entrepreneurial spirit
• Strong project management skills including development of project staffing and schedules, developing and monitoring project budgets, cost estimating and specifications

If would be a plus if you have any of the following:

• Experience with green infrastructure
• Experience with trails or multimodal design
• Experience conducting public outreach and workshops
• Experience with Civil 3D, Adobe Creative Suite, SketchUp, MicroStation, and/or Lumion

You’ll be great here if:

• Re-imagining cities, green spaces, and the public realm energizes you
• You are passionate about sustainability and the opportunity to work on challenging multimodal projects that make communities more livable
• You’re a motivated, self-driven, detail-oriented person that enjoys solving problems
• You have an interest in business development, including networking and relationship building, as well as crafting proposal messaging, scopes, and fees
• You are team oriented and enjoy working collaboratively
• Intermediate to fluent Spanish language proficiency desirable
• You enjoy producing high-quality work products and seeing your projects get built
• You have strong communication skills, whether written, verbal, or graphically
• You have the ability to self-manage time, think critically, and possess a strong work ethic

About our Raleigh Team

We are an incredibly talented and creative, entrepreneurial, hard-working group. We have planners, landscape architects, and engineers that bring the full range of services Toole Design offers, from innovative design and engineering, to best practices in urban planning, to cutting edge research and analysis. We are a tight-knit team that has fun together and supports each other. Our team enjoys knowledge sharing and creating innovative project deliverables. 

Ready to Join our Raleigh Team?
We understand your time is valuable, so we have a quick and easy application process. If you feel that you would be right for this Senior Landscape Architect position, please visit our website to apply: www.tooledesign.com/careers. Please include a link or attach a portfolio of your work.

At Toole Design, diversity is a necessity, not a nice-to-have. We have a collaborative culture where people of all backgrounds come together to share ideas and build better, more inclusive communities. We encourage those from underrepresented communities — women, people of color, LGBTQIA+, immigrants, those with disabilities and people at all the intersections in between — to apply. Even if you don’t think your current skill set checks every box below, but this role seems to align with your strengths, we want to hear from you.

We’re proud that about half of our managers are women and we are committed to achieving racial diversity in our leadership as well. Toole Design is a woman-owned business and an equal opportunity employer (EO/AA/VEV/Disabled employer).

Individuals may request accommodations or assistance with the application process by contacting 301-927-1900 and asking for Human Resources or emailing [email protected].

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